The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under house arrest pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after fresh information emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a demonstration that could enable a potential flight.
Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears
In a document approving the custody, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His child, Flávio, who works as a legislator, called for a gathering of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Will you battle for your nation, or observe everything from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so followers could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our country."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the judge's decision was the potential of his "relocation to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of planning to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The court filing underscores that the United States embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist US President Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the High Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also asked that Bolsonaro be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he required ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.
Background on Conviction
Bolsonaro was found guilty of leading a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a scheme which included plans to murder the current president and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The scheme was prevented because it couldn't obtain the backing of the armed forces officials. Lula was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised official structures in the capital, Brasília.
The security forces stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.
The judges found that the rioters had been encouraged by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, restore order and reinstate his authority.
At the period, the legal team called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until 2060 - eight years after the completion of his term.
The former president called the court case a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the next presidential race.
